![]() ![]() ![]() Courageous, compassionate, and deeply religious, Harriet Tubman, with her bravery and relentless pursuit of freedom, is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one. In lyrical text, Carole Boston Weatherford describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Taking with her only her faith, she must creep through woods with hounds at her feet, sleep for days in a potato hole, and trust people who could have easily turned her in. I set the North Star in the heavens and I mean for you to be free.īorn into slavery, Harriet Tubman hears these words from God one summer night and decides to leave her husband and family behind and escape. In addition, there are references to Hitler’s rise to power and criticism of Nazi ideology. The book is about slavery and how it compares to black slavery in America. ![]() It tells the story of Moses from an African American point of view. ![]() In this award-winning book, acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford and bestselling artist Kadir Nelson offer a resounding, reverent tribute to Harriet Tubman, the woman who earned the name Moses for her heroic role in the Underground Railroad. Zora Neale Hurston wrote a novel in 1939 called Moses, Man of the Mountain. A Caldecott Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Award Winner ![]()
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